United must now push the boat out to ensure they win the battle with Bayern Munich for Schalke's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.
The 25-year-old German international number one has been on keeper coach Eric Steele's watch list in the countdown to Edwin Van der Sar's retirement at the end of the season.
Others have been monitored like Maarten Stekelenburg of Ajax and Atletico Madrid's David de Gea.
But after Neuer's outstanding performance against the Reds in Germany on Tuesday night he must now surely be top priority.
Sir Alex Ferguson made a bee-line to Neuer to congratulate him after the match and described his display as “probably the finest display of goalkeeping against us in my time”.
Praise indeed, well deserved and a bit of buttering up doesn't go amiss.
The post-Peter Schmeichel calamitous days even over a decade on are too raw not to believe United must now pull out all the stops to capture Neuer.
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